Biography

Mark Maslin FRGS, FRSA is a Professor of Climatology at University College London. He is a Royal Society Industrial Fellowship, Executive Director of Rezatec Ltd and Director of The London NERC Doctoral Training Partnership. He is science advisor to the Global Cool Foundation and the Sopria-Steria Group and a member of Cheltenham Science Festival Advisory Committee. Maslin is a leading scientist with particular expertise in past global and regional climatic change and has publish over 120 papers in journals such as Science, Nature, and The Lancet. He has been PI or Co-I on grants worth over £43 million (including 25 NERC, 2 EPSRC, 2 DIFD, 2 Carbon Trust, 2 ESA, 3 Technology Strategy Board, Royal Society and DECC). His areas of scientific expertiseinclude causes of past and future global climate change and its effects on the global carbon cycle, biodiversity, rainforests and human evolution. He also works on monitoring land carbon sinks using remote sensing and ecological models and international and national climate change policies.

Professor Maslin has presented over 45 public talks over the last three years including UK Space conference, Oxford, Cambridge, RGS, Tate Modern, Royal Society of Medicine, Fink Club, Frontline Club, British Museum, Natural History Museum, Goldman Sachs, the Norwegian Government, UNFCCC COP and the WTO. He has supervised 10 Research fellows, 14 PhD students and over 20 MSc students. He has also have written 8 popular books, over 30 popular articles (e.g., for New Scientist, The Times, Independent and Guardian), appeared on radio and television (including Timeteam, Newsnight, Dispatches, Horizon, The Today Programme, Material World, BBC News, Channel 5 News, and Sky News. His popular book “Climate Change: A Very Short Introduction” by Oxford University Press is now in its third edition and has sold over 40,000 copies. He has subsequently published another title “Climate: A Very Short Introduction” in the same series. Maslin was also a co-author of the seminal Lancet report ‘Managing the health effects of climate change’ and the Lancet review paper on the health links between Population, Development and Climate Change. He was included in Who’s Who for the first time in 2009 and was granted a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award for the study of early human evolution in East Africa in 2011.

Day S. and Maslin, M.A., Gas hydrates: a hazard for the 21st Century? Report of an open discussion session at the Johnstone – Levis Colloquium. Phil. Transactions A of the Royal Society368, 2579-2583, doi: 10.1098/rsta.2010.0066 (2010)

Swann, G.E.A., Maslin, M.A., Leng, M.J., Sloane, H.J. and Haug, G.H. (2006) Diatom d18O evidence for the development of the modern halocline system in the subarctic northwest Pacific at the onset of major Northern Hemisphere glaciation. Paleoceanography. 21, PA1009, doi: 10.1029/2005PA001147

Seidov, D and M.A. Maslin "Collapse of the North Atlantic Deep water circulation during the Heinrich events" Geology, 27, 23-26 (1999)

Haberle, S. and M.A. Maslin "Late Quaternary Vegetation and climate changes in the Amazon basin based on a 50,000 year pollen record from the Amazon Fan ODP Site 932" Quaternary Research, 51, 27-38 (1999).

Chapman, M., and M.A. Maslin "Low latitude forcing of meridional temperature and salinity gradients in the North Atlantic and the growth of glacial ice sheets" Geology, 27. 875-878 (1999).

Burns, S. and M.A. Maslin "Composition and circulation of bottom water in the western Atlantic Ocean during the last glacial, based on pore-water analyses from the Amazon Fan" Geology, 27, 1011-1014 (1999).

Robinson, S., M.A. Maslin and I.N. McCave. "Magnetic susceptibility as a reliable indicator of ice rafting intensity: a reconstruction of the palaeocirculation of the last glacial maximum and the Heinrich events" Paleoceanography10, 221-250 (1995)

Research

Overview

Maslin's research has been underpinned by his participation in international funded research expeditions (e.g., IMAGES, Ocean Drilling Program), fieldwork in Africa (2003; 2007; 2010) and invited study visits (e.g., Yale, Potsdam, Berne, Penn State, Stony Brook, Rio de Janeiro, Smithsonian Institute and Turkana Basin Institute). He has published over 130 papers in journals such as Nature (6), Science (3), Geology (8), Nature Geosciences (1), The Lancet (4), PTRS (7) and Paleoceanography (10). His citation count is currently over 6570* (with >725 citation in 2014), H=43* and i10 index=93* (Google) with 17 papers that have been cited over 100 times. He has also published 11 books, 16 book chapters, 6 edited volumes and over 35 popular articles. Maslin is an Associate Editor of Quaternary Science Review,Geographical Journal and Nature Scientific Reports. Maslin currently holds a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit award for his work on early Human Evolution in East Africa. Maslin’s major research areas are as follows:

Mark Maslin "Weight and Sea" (Millions of lives in Bangladesh have been devastated after repeated attempts to contain flooding. But subsidence means even worse is to come is effective action is not taken) Guardian, 23/9 Society section pages 4-5 (1998).

Mark Maslin "Wave after wave" (Hurricane Georges and El Niño are not flukes of nature, argues Mark Maslin. They are symptoms of rapid climate - and there are more storms to come) Guardian, 7/10 Society section page 5 (1998).

Rezatec

Rezatec Limited was co-founded by Professor Mark Maslin in 2012 and is based in the Electron Buildingin Harwell, Oxfordshire. Rezatec aims to solve global business problems concerning the environment through scientific analysis of satellite and ground data. Rezatec Earth Information Products and Analytics support complex business decision-making for organisations across many different markets from financial services to energy, from agribusiness to forest management and the REDD+ agenda.

3. Scientific validation: Rezatec uses cutting edge science which has been independently verified as the bases of all its data products and services reducing of error and uncertainty.

Rezatec’s unique strength lies in its ability to aggregate large amounts of diverse data from satellite, airborne and ground instruments as the basis for advanced predictive analysis. This analysis uses different ecosystem models and statistical techniques to create each data product.

A typical predictive analysis process involves the following steps:

acquisition of a range of remote sensing and ancillary and reference data as inputs, then;